The Call of Duty
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the latrines…” Our first new DespairWear t-shirt of the new...
View ArticleThe Top 13 Demotivators® Posters Of All Time
A recent post at Entrepreneur.com considers the Top 10 Successories Motivational Posters of All Time. After we put away our sick bags, we decided to reply to it, with our semi-scientific list of the...
View ArticlePlease Stand By
After years of development, of false starts, aborted launches, and other self-inflicted mishaps, our most cynically brilliant adventure is about to begin.The post Please Stand By appeared first on The...
View ArticleIntroducing “Who Killed John F. Kennedy?”– A Lose Your Own Adventure!
The Detective is YOU, a brilliant kid detective! The Victim is JFK, the President of the United States! But the mystery is UTTERLY UNSOLVABLE!The post Introducing “Who Killed John F. Kennedy?” – A Lose...
View ArticleEarly Praise for “Who Killed John F. Kennedy?” Lose Your Own Adventure #1
Despair.com’s first Lose Your Own Adventure book, Who Killed John F. Kennedy?, is now hitting the mailrooms of over 100 journalists and book reviewers across the globe, and the early reviews have been...
View ArticleLose Your Own Adventure #2, “The Glass Ceiling”
For over a decade, our female customers have asked us to take on workplace sexism. Yet it's a topic far too complex to reduce to a simple poster or t-shirt. It deserves nothing less than a full-on...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes of “Who Killed John F. Kennedy?”
SPOILER ALERT. If you haven’t yet read Lose Your Own Adventure #1, Who Killed John F. Kennedy?, you probably should skip this post! If you have read it, we hope you loved it! From the reviews on...
View ArticleThe 365 Day Journey Continues
We’ve been getting hundreds of emails and phone calls asking us if, in fact, there will be a follow-up edition of last year’s smash hit page-a-day calendar, “The Pessimist“. And the short answer is...
View ArticleA 365 Day Calendar, with a Novella Inside…
As 2013 draws to a close, so too does will our smash hit, 365 day journey into darkness, The Pessimist calendar. If you’ve been following along daily with the slow, steady unravelling of one...
View ArticleThe Return of Bittersweets!
Don’t look now (seriously), but Valentine’s Day is just a little more than three weeks away! You probably haven’t noticed, unless you have been in a grocery store at any point in the last month, and...
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